Apple is allowing the sale of
pornographic applications for the iPhone in its iTunes
store, with the content then being downloaded onto the
iPhone. Some of these applications are free to children and
adults; and links to web sites that lead to even more
explicit pornography are also given on iTunes. And even if
teens do not purchase or download these “apps,” Apple
provides samples of the pornography on iTunes for all to
see. (Click
here for a recent article on some of the salacious
iPhone apps available.)

Typical content has included
items with names like “Shawna Lee Private Dance,” which
shows a porn starlet with her hand down the front of her
bikini bottom fondling herself; “Love Positions Free,” with
a drawing titled “doggystyle” showing a couple having sex;
“1001 Boobs Lite;” and “Tasty Pasties 18+ Amateurs” (at one
point, the 11th most popular “app” out of
thousands on iTunes). All of these applications are free –
and available to children.

Please help us hold Apple responsible for providing
pornography to children. Call, e-mail, or send a letter to
Apple, and tell them to remove pornographic content from
their phone apps and iTunes store.

Parents Television Council,
www.parentstv.org, PTC,
Clean Up TV Now, Because our children are watching, The
nation's most influential advocacy organization, Protecting
children against sex, violence and profanity in
entertainment, Parents Television Council Seal of Approval,
and Family Guide to Prime Time Television
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